Saturday, August 6, 2011

Designs in Nature II

The Mandelbrot Set is the ultimate design in nature. The image of the Mandelbrot Set is infinitely scalable - forever and ever and ever.... It emerges out of the mathematics that is part of our reality. It does have a beginning however, which is shown in this image:


This is an example of a bound but infinite design; you can see the edges, so you know it is bound. But drill down and you will never reach an end, as the images from this link in Wikipedia demonstrates:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mandel_zoom_00_mandelbrot_set.jpg

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